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The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny.

By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney.

The act or business of stealing or kidnaping human beings, especially with a view to e

Stealing cattle on a large scale. [Obs.]

Animating spirit; intention; temper. nimus furandi Etym: [L.] (Law), intention of stealing.

is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. Jer. Taylor.

To come upon unexpectedly or by surprise; to find; as, to catch one in the act of stealing.

clutch of poverty." Cowper. An expiring clutch at popularity. Carlyle. But Age, with his stealing steps, Hath clawed me in his clutch. Shak.

Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing. [Colloq.]

One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cutpurse. Shak.

The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.

By pilfering or petty stealing.

A kind of pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie. [Obs.] Stealing custards, tarts, and florentines. Beau. & Fl.

Stealing the heart or affections; winning.

A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living. [U. S.] -- Ho"bo*ism (#), n.

Stealing on or into the confidence or affections; having power to gain favor. "Crafty, insinuative, plausible men." Bp. Reynolds.

practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them. Spenser.

structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss. Panel game, a method of stealing money in a panel house. -- Panel house, a house of prostitution in which the rooms have secret entrances to facilitate theft by accomplices of the inmates. -- Panel saw, handsaw with fine teeth, -- used for cutting out…

quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet. The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard. Thomson.

e bar of a court; -- so called in distinction from the grand jury. -- Petit larceny, the stealing of goods of, or under, a certain specified small value; -- opposed to grand larceny. The distinction is abolished in England. -- Petit maître (. Etym: [F., lit., little master.] A fop; a coxcomb; a ladies' man. Goldsmith…